So how do I tell if I've lost weight?

[jbeany]

Is there any way you can tell, besides pushing your fluid pull a little higher and risking a bp crash?  I've been watching what I eat; I've been exercising regularly.  But if I leave each dialysis session at my goal dry weight, how will I ever know if the diet and exercising are doing any good?  I left Saturday at .1 kg under my dry weight.  I actually had to argue with the nurse on Tuesday to get her to set my goal to the same thing I left at instead of the doctor's stated dry weight.   If I've lost weight, then I'm "leaving heavy" - are there any signs I should be looking for to tell if that's true?  Should I just be trying to back down .1 kg at a time?  I really don't want to have to crash to find out what I'm really supposed to weigh.

[kimcanada]

I get confused about this also, all I know is that my dry weight keeps changing every week or so, they will keep it the same even though I am under the dry weight, then after about a week or two the lower my dry weight.

So what the protocol is for this I am not to sure.

Geez now instead of helping you we are both confused! 

Kim

[thegrammalady]

so here's what i think.............if i weighed 82.7kg this morning and i weigh the same thing when i go in on friday morning i haven't lost any weight. i've lost 12.5 lbs since january. the dr and i have talked about lowering my dry weight, but he wants to wait and see what happens so i don't get dehydrated. i can gain weight walking across the street from a danish bakery! i never let them take more than the minimum. when i left today i weighed 82kg. i don't seem to retain fluids, i very seldom if ever come in puffy. at any rate logic according to susie is very seldom logic according to the rest of the world, so who knows.